We need many more candidates to stand and fight this blatant gaslighting and misogyny.....There is a quote from one of the women who made a speech (a survivor) in the article:
"All women should be free and safe. That of course includes women of colour, women with disabilities, trans women, sex workers, elder women, migrant women, all women."
I’m sick of having to include men whenever concerns for women's safety are highlighted. The very fact that she has referred to ‘trans women’ for me makes a mockery of what they are protesting about. We all know that in Australia, authorities are bending over backwards to promote TWAW, fetishes and all. They are protesting violence against women on one hand, yet on the other would accommodate perverts with ill intentions in women’s spaces and women are told to shut up if they complain.
It’s the same here - an acknowledged epidemic of violence against women, yet no one joining the dots between the rise in misogyny and the increase in the number of men saying they’re women in order to humiliate and harm females. I was watching the Mayoral debate for the Mayor of London the other day and Khan was talking about the need for better education and interventions to curb misogynistic violence, yet three out of four of the candidates were TWAW and the two men (Khan and the Lib Dem candidate) interrupted and spoke over the female Tory candidate and addressed her with a patronising tone. Few men seem to realise that by accepting the TWAW mantra and pushing for the rights of males to access women’s spaces, they are actually inherently misogynistic because they perceive the desires of males as more important than the safety of females.
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